Heey everyone!

Before starting the story of today, John took the time to change the Softengine site to a photo gallery. We uploaded the photo's of the past couple of days on to this site:http://www.softengine.nl

We left for the Griffith Observatory right before noon today. It was a nice and quiet ride up into the hills of Griffith Park, untill we came closer to the observatory itself. While driving up the road leading to the observatory we already noticed cars parked everywhere you could fit one.

We decided to be cheeky and try to snatch a parking spot up closer to the observatory and of course we succeeded! From here it was just a small walk to the pathway leading up to the observatory.

Upon entering the building you immediately notice the large Foucault Pendulum in the main hall. To the left was the Hall of the Eye and to the right the Hall of the Sky. The Hall of the Eye focused mainly on telescopes and the Hall of the Sky mainly on the way our planet is influenced by the moon and by the way it rotates and so on.

Downstairs was a lot more to see, but the most noticeable thing there was the Leonard Nimoy Event Horizon Theater where we saw a movie about the creation of the Griffith Observatory, as told by Leonard Nimoy himself of course.

We also went inside the largest dome of the observatory where you could sit down in real comfortable chairs and look up to a sort of projected movie on the ceiling of the dome. This was an incredible experience and a lot better than expected.

We were also allowed to go on the roof of the observatory where we had some amazing views of the Hollywood Sign and the city of Los Angeles itself.

After seeing everything there was of the Griffith Observatory we drove back through a different side of Griffith Park untill we ended up on the Hollywood Boulevard again. We had some time left so decided to see if we could get close to the Grauman's Chinese Theater and walk the walk of fame.

A big part of the boulevard was closed off because of the Academy Awards coming up, but you could still get there as a pedestrian, so we parked the car and looked around. We also stumbled upon the Hollywood Highlands shopping centre, which was quite big and had a really nice design. We had a nice dinner there and then headed back home for our last night of sleep in Las Vegas.

We will be flying for 15 hours tomorrow and there will be a time difference of about 8 hours I think, so we'll probably not have anything new for you all in the next day or 2.

See you in Australia!

Jeremy